Data Services Librarian

Code4lib; Massachusetts; Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston College Libraries is seeking a Data Services Librarian to join our Digital Scholarship Group (DSG). The role collaborates on data gathering, manipulation, management, curation, documentation, and training; it also supports faculty and student data-driven projects with one-on-one and classroom engagement across undergraduate and graduate levels.

The position emphasizes building relationships, public communication, and expanding data services with economics and business stakeholders, within

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Library and Information Science or related data-intensive field with 2-3 years of relevant experience.
• Experience providing data skills training and classroom instruction (oral, written, and video tutorials).
• Experience providing research support for students and faculty through data consultations, curation, management, cleaning, and mining services.
• Experience working with numeric data in academic, scientific, or corporate environments.
• Ability to engage across disciplines including economics and business with varied audiences.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across the Digital Scholarship Group to design and drive data-related services and initiatives.
• Consult on faculty and student data-driven projects; develop curriculum resources and tools.
• Provide data skills instruction in person and via online resources; conduct trainings and workshops.

Skills

Data skills training

Classroom instruction

Data consultations

Working with numeric data

Excellent communication

Education

Master's degree in Library & Information Science or related data-intensive field

Tools

Python

R

GIS

Data visualization tools

Job description

Boston College Libraries are seeking a Data Services Librarian to join our Digital Scholarship Group (DSG). As a member of the DSG, the Data Services Librarian collaborates on designing and driving initiatives, providing current services, and is a valued voice in DSG strategic planning. This position is highly collaborative within the DSG, throughout the Libraries, particularly in the cohort (which consists of the DSG, instruction team, and subject liaisons), and across campus.(You can find more information, including an FAQ, on our department website .)

The Data Services Librarian is primarily responsible for DSG collaborations and services related to data gathering, manipulation, management, curation, documentation, and skills training. Such activities include consulting on faculty and student data-driven projects; providing data skills instruction and training on data manipulation and management methods, best practices, and tools in person and through curriculum resource development, e.g., module and online resource creation. These responsibilities are heavily front-facing and involve a significant amount of one-on-one and classroom engagement with undergraduate and graduate students.

A large component of this position will involve working closely with a fellow Data Services Librarian and the DSG head on endeavors to grow existing data services and find new ways for the BC community to critically engage with data. It is important that the person in this role is comfortable working across disciplines with a range of data types, including economic and business-related data, which is in high demand from our Economics and Carroll School of Management students. It is also important that the person in this position is comfortable with relationship building and public communication, as everyone in the department contributes to outreach.

Required

• A master's degree in Library and Information Science or a closely related, data-intensive research field, plus 2-3 years of relevant experience

• Demonstrated experience in

  • Providing data skills training and classroom instruction (oral, written, and video tutorials, etc.);

  • Providing research support for students and faculty through data consultations and curation, management, cleaning, and mining services;

  • Working with numeric data in academic, scientific, or corporate environments

• The ability to engage with research across a variety of disciplines, including economics and business, and a range of audiences, from undergraduate and graduate students to faculty and staff

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Preferred

• Experience working in academic libraries;

• Experience working with big data, survey microdata, text data, or similarly complex data;

• Experience working with library data resources, data subscription platforms (like WRDS), and publicly available data (like FRED)

• Demonstrated experience in

  • Data visualization and communication;

  • Data cleaning, creation, and analysis using coding languages such as Python or R;

  • Geospatial data and GIS technologies;

Description

Boston College Libraries are seeking a Data Services Librarian to join our Digital Scholarship Group (DSG). As a member of the DSG, the Data Services Librarian collaborates on designing and driving initiatives, providing current services, and is a valued voice in DSG strategic planning. This position is highly collaborative within the DSG, throughout the Libraries, particularly in the cohort (which consists of the DSG, instruction team, and subject liaisons), and across campus.(You can find more information, including an FAQ, on our department website .)

The Data Services Librian is primarily responsible for DSG collaborations and services related to data gathering, manipulation, management, curation, documentation, and skills training. Such activities include consulting on faculty and student data-driven projects; providing data skills instruction and training on data manipulation and management methods, best practices, and tools in person and through curriculum resource development, e.g., module and online resource creation. These responsibilities are heavily front-facing and involve a significant amount of one-on-one and classroom engagement with undergraduate and graduate students.

A large component of this position will involve working closely with a fellow Data Services Librarian and the DSG head on endeavors to grow existing data services and find new ways for the BC community to critically engage with data. It is important that the person in this role is comfortable working across disciplines with a range of data types, including economic and business-related data, which is in high demand from our Economics and Carroll School of Management students. It is also important that the person in this position is comfortable with relationship building and public communication, as everyone in the department contributes to outreach.

Required

• A master's degree in Library and Information Science or a closely related, data-intensive research field, plus 2-3 years of relevant experience

• Demonstrated experience in

  • Providing data skills training and classroom instruction (oral, written, and video tutorials, etc.);

  • Providing research support for students and faculty through data consultations and curation, management, cleaning, and mining services;

  • Working with numeric data in academic, scientific, or corporate environments

• The ability to engage with research across a variety of disciplines, including economics and business, and a range of audiences, from undergraduate and graduate students to faculty and staff

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Preferred

• Experience working in academic libraries;

• Experience working with big data, survey microdata, text data, or similarly complex data;

• Experience working with library data resources, data subscription platforms (like WRDS), and publicly available data (like FRED)

• Demonstrated experience in

  • Data visualization and communication;

  • Data cleaning, creation, and analysis using coding languages such as Python or R;

  • Geospatial data and GIS technologies;